If Zhao Jun has a practical solution, it would be the best thing for them.
"So that's how it is. I didn't understand it in such detail before."
After listening to Yan Shu's detailed introduction, Zhao Jun was puzzled for a moment and asked, "Uncle Lari, how did you know all this?"
"Forehead......"
Yan Shu was speechless for a moment, and said vaguely: "It is written in the History of Song Dynasty."
“Is it recorded in the History of Song?”
Zhao Jun thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. I haven't finished reading the History of the Song Dynasty anyway. This stuff makes my blood pressure go up."
Zhao Zhen clenched his fists, and Zhao Jun also made his blood pressure high every time.
"Is there any solution?"
Yan Shu asked.
"Chairman Mao said that we must see the essence through phenomena and analyze contradictions to grasp the key points."
Zhao Jun said: "The money-seeking method has advantages and disadvantages, but if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, then it is a good idea. So, do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?"
Yan Shu said: "After the implementation of the new law, the annual savings and additional fiscal revenue will reach 6.5 million strings of cash."
"That means the benefits outweigh the disadvantages."
Zhao Jun nodded: "The first thing we need to solve here is the problem that the money law will cause the national treasury to be empty in a short period of time."
"Um."
Yan Shu glanced at Cai Qi. Zhao Zhen had previously arranged Li Zi, Cai Qi, Ding Du, Cheng Lin and others to do this matter, but the progress was slow and there was great resistance.
In addition to the opposition from the tea merchants and border officials at the lower level, these high-ranking officials also did not quite agree.
"The previous method was like spending money before it was earned. Although the inflated prices caused losses to the national treasury, the tea merchants had to travel back and forth, wait for approval procedures, and transfer other goods, which gave the Song Dynasty a certain amount of time to recover."
Zhao Jun pondered and said, "So the inflated amount could be delayed until the tea merchants paid it slowly, which would have helped the Song Dynasty's treasury sustain itself. Now paying it all off in one lump sum saves the tea merchants from the hassle of approval and other transactional issues, but it also reduces the Song Dynasty's financial turnover time, so in the short term, it's more harmful to the treasury."
"right!"
Everyone looked at him with admiration. He was indeed a person from later generations, and his perspective on things was different.
"It's the same principle as doing government projects."
Zhao Jun laughed and said, "My college classmate's family was involved in construction. He usually looked very well-dressed, but one day the local government owed his father over 10 million yuan in construction fees, and he was practically broke. So, logically speaking, as long as the tea merchants could get paid, they should be happy to accept it."
"There are some tea merchants who support the cash-on-demand system. After all, in the past, tea merchants received their money more slowly, which made it very difficult for them to recover their funds. However, these are mostly small and medium-sized tea merchants. For large tea merchants, this is not a big deal."
Yan Shu said.
After the failure of the first reform, Li Zi also made some summary.
At the beginning of this year, when he received the task from Zhao Zhen, he learned from the previous lesson and gathered the tea merchants together. He not only explained the pros and cons, but also gave them a certain amount of "profit" in the tea plantation.
Through the sticking shooting method, they can trade directly with the farmers, and the tea they get is all new and good tea, without the loss of old and bad tea from the mountain fields.
But for big tea merchants with strong financial resources, it is nothing.
Anyway, they have money, so they can continue to fight with the court, and at the same time bribe officials and grab higher profits from the court's treasury than reselling tea.
Moreover, every time the big tea merchants transported grain, they not only received inflated currency from the national treasury, but also a large number of tea permits that allowed them to sell their exclusive tea. They could earn twice as much money from one job, and in return, they could obtain several times the profit. This was much faster than robbing money.
Maybe someone will say that you have inflated the profits so much, is it okay for the court not to pay you?
It really doesn't work.
If the imperial court did not honor their inflated prices, it would inevitably damage its credibility, making the "Entering China Law" ineffective.
Merchants would no longer transport grain to the border, and without food the army would rebel, which would ultimately harm the interests of the border troops and the country. That was why the Song Dynasty court was trying to fight the wolf with a straw - it was afraid of both ends.
If it were before Zhao Jun went to college, he would probably say something like "confiscate the tea merchants' property and exterminate their families to see if they dare to become parasites to the country."
But he is now a history major who loves reading and has a high IQ, so naturally he has to consider the consequences of doing so.
Therefore, after hearing Yan Shu's words, Zhao Jun pondered for a while and said, "Both of these problems are actually easy to solve. Let's first talk about the problem of insufficient treasury that the court ministers are worried about. I can only give one answer."
"What?"
"Jiaozi!"
"Jiaozi?"
"good."
Zhao Jun said, "In history classes, Jiaozi is recognized as the world's first paper currency, predating Europe by over 600 years. I remember Li Zi's Jianqian method was from the reign of Emperor Renzong, and Jiaozi first appeared in Sichuan during that time. As long as Jiaozi is properly utilized and the money exchange and banking system are controlled, the problem of an empty treasury can be solved."
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